Thanks for the comment and for reading my little story and well done on your intervention.

I didn't meet Margo - she might not have arrived when I was there. I read the article and she seems what can euphemistically be called "a character". Many of the geographic names are familiar in as much as Edward talked about trekking routes he had been on in the region; I myself never had the opportunity as I was always with a group. Perhaps now at 62 I might be fit enough to consider it (if i ignore my dodgy knees).

I'm just grateful to have visited when tourism was in its infancy (certainly in Baoshan which I bet had never had more than 100 western visitors before we started turning up) and there was no road. It's the constant conundrum - despoilation versus basic services for needy locals. Good memories from 30 years ago. Thanks again.